Estado, comunidades terapêuticas e neoliberalismo: um estudo sobre a política de drogas no Brasil

• Autor(a) principal: Quintas, Ana Caroline de Moraes Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2022
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• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/18715
• topic: Therapeutic communities; Neoliberalism; Drug policies; Comunidades terapêuticas; Neoliberalismo; Política de drogas; CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA

Since the changes in the Brazilian drug policy are stimulating the growth of Therapeutic Communities (TCs) – residential units which offer care to drug users –, studies on the subject prove to be needed. To understand the close relationship between the TCs and public policies, it is necessary to expand our debate, hence we will recognize the importance of a study that analyzes how neoliberalism works. That said, this thesis aims to identify – through qualitative study and documental analysis – the likeness between neoliberal rationality and TCs’ operation. To achieve that, we have discussed the neoliberalism political foundations, understanding it as political rationality that changes the surroundings of life; we have identified the TCs foundations and their connection with the Brazilian legislation; through the documental analysis we have discussed, through the brazilian newspapers O Globo and Folha de São Paulo, as well as official documents, the alliances, disputes, and political discourses that, together with the neoliberal foundations, enabled the growth of TCs. In addition to that, we have highlighted two important political marks. The first – situated in Dilma Rousseff’s (PT) presidential term (2011-2016) – presents a neoliberal pluralist discourse allied with the idea of negative liberty and the shared sovereignty of the State. The second – which took place after Dilma’s impeachment, in 2016 – introduces, in addition to the above foundations, the formation of a plutocracy that defends a conservative morality allied with the discourse of individual accountability and the emptying of public spaces for discussion. All the foundations we found have shown not only the affinity between neoliberal and the TCs growth, but also the undoing of democracy. We expect this discussion to qualify and offer subsidies for the construction of public health policies for drug users that are sustained in democratic foundations.